I just watched the Hardball Team (Mike Barnacle, Andrea Mitchell and Roger Simon) all give McCain a pass on the recent negatives attacks. Their reason for excusing him was what was very unusual to say the least. Follow me over the bump.

And I wish I was stupid so maybe I could understand this.

Everything I have read or had been told for the past 50 years tells me this should not be happening. Two hundred and thirty three years after the birth of a country promising equal treatment for all, it must be clear to Molinari and Watkins that blacks and women are still second class citizens.

They surely most know that white men have deliberately kept it this way for all those years. Of course there are  hundreds of female and black shills like this all over television but can these people really believe what they are spouting? Please help me if you can as I want to smash my TV to smithereens.

I'm not an authority on the Iraq war or the Surge, but I know a great argument when I hear it. VoteVets.org founder and chairman, Jon Soltz was on Hardball yesterday, and he unequivocally stated the Surge failed..

Finally someone on Hardball says the surge is not working!  These d-bags who continue to say The Surge worked piss me off. I'm so glad someone is speaking the truth. And he actually let them speak. John Saltz (how it sounds)owned the nutjob Pete Hegseth. McSame and Bush keep getting a free pass from the media when they say the Surge worked. It's a complete farce. This is a great step for politics and real reporting and debate. It's a short post I know but I had to. It's such a relief to to have someone on air actually using evidence to back up what they say.

Chris Matthews on Hardball has promised to interpret some recent polls in the worst way possible (for us Obama supporters). What he has done is cherry picked the worst possible polls (from our perspective), ready to pound them!

So, here at the clinic, we're giving free vaccinations for the Hardball show coming on tomorrow!  

Please tip your health care professional as I am working hard for you (and packing away for my move)!

Found interesting fun discussion of Veepstakes MSNBC !

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/...

Disgraceful shill Andrea Mitchell just gave a two minute speech on Chris Matthew's Hardball in which she stated that "clearly the surge has worked!"

I shit you not.

I'm writing this diary shaking with rage.

So I'm watching Hardball and Mike Barnicle is subbing for Chris Matthews. The last segment of the program, The Politics Fix, always has three political commentators. Tonight, the three pundits were three African-Americans with diverse backgrounds. The three panelists were the following:

1. Michelle Bernard from the conservative Independent Women's Forum

2. Jonathon Capehart, an openly gay reporter from the traditional media outlet, the Washington Post

3. Jeff Johnson, who is described in his Wiki profile as "a political motivator and a social commentator," from BET, Black Entertainment Television - an media outlet that is more narrowly focused on a African-American audience.

And perhaps the most promising part of the panel was the fact that the subjects Barnicle touched on were not the narrow subject matters usually relegated to African-Americans: no discussion of Jesse Jackson Sr. and his fixation on Obama's genitalia, no discussion of supposed white working class resistance to Obama, nothing at all about race.

In recent weeks, the GOP has started the talking point that the surge is working, just because violence is down, without addressing the actual objective of the surge, political accomodation. This has been reiterated by the MSM, and I have been upset at their lack of attention to the real issue.

Finally, Chris Matthews is speaking for me. And as an added bonus, rips Pat Buchanan a new one. See an excerpt from the transcript below.

"The greatest thing about this man is he's steady," Colbert continued, in a nod to George W. Bush. "You know where he stands. He believes the same thing Wednesday that he believed on Monday, no matter what happened Tuesday."

in deference to a candidate who has not resorted to talking down to us, can we at least stop using baby talk like, "flip flop" & "flip flopper?"
i know we cannot expect the cool sophisticates of the media to stop, it's a guilty pleasure for them, like fart jokes - anderson cooper for one, can't wait to report the first charges of obama having "cooties." still, we should be able to discipline ourselves to the point of not using the language of preschoolers in a sandbox.

On tonight's Countdown, Tweety Matthews was leading a discussion with about the Charlie Black comment that a terrorist attack before the November election would benefit John McCain. This is when lightning struck -  again

Good evening, Friends of Olbermann! I gotta warn you; I was feeling a little "saucy" prepping for the diary. Hubby must have spiked the hamburgers and green beans we had for dinner because a lot of what was covered on Countdown tonight really got the proverbial juices flowin'!

Please vote in the poll about what color our potential F.O.O. shirts should be. Remember, we need at least 6 people interested to be able to order shirts.

Now then, on to tonight's "saucy" Countdown diary!

Don't get me wrong.  I've loved MSNBC's occasional turn to the liberal side with commentators like Keith Olberman.  But for the most part, it's still pretty main stream.  Still pretty corporate.

But every once in awhile a serious voice breaks through into the bobble-headed sound-bite world of talk television.  Tonight it was wonderful to see Amy Goodman of Democracy Now forcefully declare her views on the woman vote in the Presidential election.

It's incredible to watch an alternative voice on corporate media.  I thought she did well in hitting the issues she wanted to hit and more than held her own in a forum that demands such concision that usually only conventional platitudes are heard.  But what do you think?  Did Amy best her opponents?

More on Amy after the break, including a run-in with Michael Sipes of REM.

Today, on Hardball, Chris Matthews talked about how unique it was to hear a Democrat talking about reducing the number of abortions.  Why, he wondered, aren’t Democrats working on developing that theme?  What rock has he been hiding under?   We have been there for decades fighting for education, empowerment and options.  

Dunno if you caught Hardball last night, but WTF? I searched and no one seems to have mentioned it.

In touting some Veep speculation, Chris Matthews as HuffPo relates:

MATTHEWS: So who is it? Pennsylvania Governor Eddie Rendell. I tell ya, this guy would surround that slice of ham - Obama - with so much rye bread, he'd have the whole state of Florida munching on it!

The other night, on the latest stop on Scott McClellan’s "the truth will set him free" tour, was this exchange between Chris Matthews and Scott McClellan:

MATTHEWS:  Did you ever fear, no, when we were going to war and you were working at the White House, did you ever fear that Saddam Hussein might strike at the United States?   As an American, did you ever fear that?

MCCLELLAN:  You know, I thought we were rushing awfully quickly into this and I don’t know that I personally felt like we were about to be attacked or anything and we never said it was imminent.  I mean, some people I think maybe had slipped and said it was imminent.

Oops.  From the February 10, 2003 White House press briefing:

MR. McCLELLAN: This is about an imminent threat.

Careful, Scott.  When you hit the talk show circuit to sell the truth for $27.95, it’s not a good idea to be caught in an outright lie.

If David Gregory doesn't have the sense to admit that the consolidated, corporate media failed to ask the tough questions in the run-up to the war, what does that say about him? Is he more concerned with his career than serving the public by performing a thorough job as a journalist?

Something is in the air.  Two major articles (well, the second is actually a reaction to the first) about Chris Matthews, and his place in our lives.  Is he really leaving us for greener pastures?  And, most importantly, will he still surf?

He was immersed in political history, political lore, political speculation, political calculation, political humor, and political craziness—and, then as now, he wasn’t drowning in it, he was surfing it.

Barack Obama need's 80 of the uncommitted super delegates to put this maddness to and end.  Or...  40 of Hillary's committed super's to cross over.